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Love at Goon Park Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

Deborah Blum

In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be und...

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Ezra described it as a fascinating account of Harry Harlow's attachment experiments, linking animal research to human relational insights.

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The other book that come to mind is Love in Goon Park. It's a book about Harry Harlow's and his laboratory, his discovery of attachment in monkeys. So just a marvelous book about us as human beings be...

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Ezra described it as a fascinating account of Harry Harlow's attachment experiments, linking animal research to human relational insights.

"

The other book that come to mind is Love in Goon Park. It's a book about Harry Harlow's and his laboratory, his discovery of attachment in monkeys. So just a marvelous book about us as human beings being very much like interactive with other people.

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